Recommended Reading List

Screenwriting
Story by Robert McKee (Kat Candler)
Making a Good Script Great by Linda Seger (Jay Duplass)
Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman (John Bryant)
A Crackup at the Race Riots - Harmony Korine (Todd Rohal)
The Art of Dramatic Writing Lajos Egri (Kat Candler)
The Tools of Screenwriting - David Howard & Edward Mabley (Mike Roberson)


Production
Cassavetes on Cassavetes by John Cassavetes and Ray Carney (Mike Tully, Margaret
Brown, Jay Duplass, Jacob Vaughn)
Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a
Hollywood Player by Robert Rodriguez (Stacy Schoolfield)
Thinking in Pictures: The Making of the Movie Matewan by John Sayles (Kat Candler,
Alex Smith)
Sculpting in Time: Tarkovsky The Great Russian Filmaker Discusses His Art by Andrey
Tarkovsky and Kitty Hunter-Blair (Kyle Henry, Jacob Vaughn)
Getting Away With It: Or: The Further Adventures of the Luckiest Bastard You Ever Saw
by Steven Soderbergh and Richard Lester (Jay Duplass)
Spike Lee's Gotta Have It: Inside Guerrilla Filmmaking by Spike Lee and Nelson George
(Joe Swanberg)
The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the
Cheap by Stu Maschwitz (Chadwick Chennault)
Independent Feature Film Production: A Complete Guide from Concept Through
Distribution by Gregory Goodell (Todd Rohal)
The Declaration of Independent Filmmaking: An Insider's Guide to Making Movies
Outside of Hollywood by Mark Polish and Michael Polish and Jonathan Sheldon (David
Lowery)

Directing
Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film & Television by Judith
Weston (PJ Raval)
A Director Prepares by Anne Bogart (PJ Raval)
Moviemakers' Master Class: Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors by
Laurent Tirard
The Conversations by Walter Murch and Michael Ondaatje (Alex Smith)
Notes on the Cinematographer (Green Integer) by Robert Bresson (Lodge Kerrigan)
The Film Directors Intuition by Judith Weston (Mike Roberson)

Cinematography


The Camera (Ansel Adams Photography, Book 1) by Ansel Adams and Robert Baker
(Lodge Kerrigan)
The Negative (Ansel Adams Photography, Book 2) by Ansel Adams and Robert Baker
(Lodge Kerrigan)
The Print (Ansel Adams Photography, Book 3) by Ansel Adams and Robert Baker
(Lodge Kerrigan)
Cinematography: Theory and Practice, 2nd Edition by Blain Brown (Mike Roberson)

Acting
Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen and Haskel Frankel (Stacy Schoolfield)
True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor by David Mamet (Rhett
Wilkins)
Acting in Film by Michael Caine (Madison Burge)
A Practical Handbook for the Actor by Melissa Bruder, et al. (Mike Roberson)
Actions: The Actors Thesaurus by Marina Caldarone & Maggie Lloyd-Williams (Mike
Roberson)

Producing
The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up by David Rensin (Christine
Tolson)
The Hollywoods Assistants Handbook: 86 Rules for Aspiring Power Players by Hillary
Stamm (Christine Tolson)
A Killer Life: How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in
Hollywood and Beyond by Christine Vachon, Austin Bunn, and John Pierson (Stacy
Schoolfield)
Shooting to Kill by Christine Vachon and David Edelstein (Kat Candler)

Editing
In the Blink of an Eye Revised 2nd Edition by Walter Murch (Jacob Vaughn)
On Film Editing by Edward Dmytryk (Kat Candler)

Sound
Location Audio Simplified (Steve DeGennaro)

Documentaries
The Documentary Film Makers Handbook by Genevieve Jolliffe and Andrew Zinnes
Directing the Documentary by Michael Rabiger

Theory
Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov by Annette and Kevin O'Brien Michelson (Kyle
Henry)
Film As Film: Understanding and Judging Movies by V. F. Perkins (Steve Collins)
Film As a Subversive Art by Amos Vogel and Scott MacDonald (Lodge Kerrigan)
For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies by Pauline Kael (Mark Osborn)
The Resistance Ten Years of Pop Culture that Shock the World by Armond White (Mark
Osborn)
The Great Movies by Roger Ebert (Mark Osborn)
Transcendental Style in Film by Paul Schrader (Mike Roberson)
Images: My Life in Film by Ingmar Bergman (Mike Roberson)


New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader by Michele Aaron (Mike Roberson)
Film, Form & Culture, 3rd Edition by Robert Kolker (Mike Roberson)
Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard by Richard Brody (Mike
Roberson)
Film Theory & Criticism, 7th Edition by Leo Braudy & Marshall Cohen (Mike Roberson)